List of Attacks

Killing Critics

What is the punishment for insulting Islam or Muhammad?

Under Sharia, those who insult Muhammad or Allah are to be executed.
So are those who desecrate the Quran or commit other acts of blasphemy.
This tradition began with Muhammad, as recorded in the Hadith and by his
biographers. There is also a Quranic basis for it.

Quran

Quran (6:93)
- "Who can be more wicked than one who invent a lie against Allah?"
If the death penalty is prescribed for lesser crime, then it stands to
reason that it should be imposed for the most "wicked".

Quran (33:57)
- "Lo! those who malign Allah and His messenger, Allah has cursed them in
this world and the Hereafter, and has prepared for them the doom of the
disdained"

Quran (33:61)
- [continues from above] "Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and
slain with a (fierce) slaughter."

Hadith and Sira

Sahih Bukhari (59:369) - This recounts the murder of Ka'b bin al-Ashraf, a Jewish
poet who wrote verses about Muslims that Muhammad found insulting. He
asked his followers, 'Who will rid me of this man?' and several volunteered.
al-Ashraf was stabbed to death while fighting for his life.

Sahih Bukhari (3:106) - "The Prophet said, "Do not tell a lie against me for
whoever tells a lie against me (intentionally) then he will surely enter the
Hell-fire."

Sahih Bukhari (4:241) - Those who mocked Muhammad at Mecca were later killed at Badr. Some
undoubtedly died in the battle (provoked by Muhammad), but the Sira records that Abu Jahl was killed as
he "lay helpless" (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 451) and Uqba was brutally executed by
Muhammad in captivity for having put his foot on him while he was praying and draping him with camel entrails (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 458 and Ibn Kathir v.2 p.318):

When the Messenger of God (SAAS) ordered his death, Uqba asked him,
'Who will look after my children, Muhammad?' 'The fire!'... [Uqba was]
among the most evil of God's servants, the most stubborn, wicked,
envious and disbelieving of men and they had been very active in satirizing
Islam and its supporters. God damn them! And He did, indeed!

Sahih Muslim (1801) - "The Messenger of Allah said: Who will kill Ka'b b. Ashraf? He has maligned Allah, the Exalted, and His Messenger"

Notes

One of the tricks that Muslim apologists play to obscure
the fact that Islam prescribes death for detractors is to quote
earlier verses of the Quran which were later abrogated. One of these is 73:10-11, in which 'Allah' says to leave the "beliers" to him. This sura was one of the very first narrated by Muhammad - when he was at Mecca and had no power.

Another is verse 3:186, which is from the Medinan period (after Muslims attained the power to fight) - but it followed a devastating defeat at the Battle of Uhud. Muhammad's tribe was discouraged and knew they could not defeat their adversaries at that time. Though telling Muslims to endure insults, the text goes on to say that if they are patient, then a "grievous
penalty" will befall those who mock them. Indeed, the people to whom this verse
specifically referred were put to death by Muhammad just a few short years
later.

Muhammad executed his critics as quickly as he attained the power to do so. His biographers list
numerous citizens who were murdered merely for mockery or criticism,
particularly poets - the media artists of the time. One was a mother of
five, who had her child pulled from her breast before she was run through with a
sword. See
Muhammad's Dead Poets Society for more
about this.

When author Salman Rushdie published "The Satanic Verses,"
a 1988 novel deemed offensive to Muhammad, the Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced a
death sentence in the from of a fatwa that was supported by a majority of Muslims.

After a Danish newspaper published cartoons of
Muhammad in 2006, an imam (who had been welcomed to Denmark as an immigrant), traveled back to the Middle East
and whipped up hatred that resulted in deadly rioting on three continents.
Demonstrators in London held signs reading "Massacre Those Who Insult Islam."

In the years since, there have been many incidents in which
Muslims have whipped themselves into a violent frenzy over perceived insults to
Islam. At the same time, such outrage is notably lacking when innocent
people, including other Muslims, are murdered in the name of this same religion..

A deeper discussion of this subject can be found in
other places, including
this
article from Answering-Islam and
Insulting Muhammad from American Thinker.